 ... insisted that Rip had been out of his head, and that this was one point on which he always remained flighty. The old Dutch inhabitants, however, almost universally gave it full credit Even to this day they never hear a thunder-storm of a summer afternoon...  Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent - Страница 77по Washington Irving - 1865 - 504 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Brian Thomsen - 2002 - 612 страници
...afternoon about the Kaatskill, but they say Hendrick Hudson and his crew are at their game of nine pins; and it is a common wish of all henpecked husbands in the neighbourhood, when life hangs heavy on their hands, that they might have a quieting draught out of... | |
 | Brad Evans - 2005 - 255 страници
...folklore for his tale of Rip's twenty-year sleep in the Kaatskill mountains of the Hudson River Valley: "The foregoing tale one would suspect had been suggested...superstition about the emperor Frederick der Rothbart and the Kypphauser Mountain; the subjoined note, however, which he had appended to the tale, shews that it... | |
 | Michael S. Kimmel - 2005 - 276 страници
...to his fate, or joy at his deliverance, (p. 57) The story's last line extends Irving's fable to the "common wish of all hen-pecked husbands in the neighborhood,...their hands, that they might have a quieting draught of Rip Van Winkle's flagon." Rip is the first of this fictional American archetype, the man in flight... | |
 | Andrew Burstein - 2008 - 432 страници
..."got his neck out of the yoke of matrimony"; he adapts to being a "free citizen of the United States." heavy on their hands, that they might have a quieting draught out of Rip Van Winkle's flagon."38 So that is the story. Now for its various meanings: Rip Van Winkle is a lazy Odysseus. No... | |
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